In our May 5 issue, New Trend happily noted the arrival of
large numbers of Muslim protestors, PEACEFUL and UNARMED,
who decided to sit down in Dhaka to protest attacks by
police which left one person dead and hundreds injured.
Late at night, the combined forces of the secular regime
including its "civilian" gangs, led by police and military
forces, attacked the defenseless protestors who were quietly
praying, doing zikr and resting, many even sleeping after
the daylong rallies.
What followed is horrific beyond words. Blood flowed in the
streets as the Muslims were indiscriminately slaughtered.
Truck loads of the dead are being taken away by the regime's
forces. As the crowd was resting next to Baitul Mukarram,
the central mosque in Dhaka, the secular gangs tried to set
fire to the entire mosque complex. Scores of book stores
selling Islamic books, Qurans and Hadith were burned to
ashes.

We publish here the joint statement of the top leaders of
Hefajate Islam [Defense of Islam] which had brought the
anti-blasphemy crowds into Dhaka.
We also have photographic evidence of the attack by the
government with thanks to Dr. Kamal. Some of them are from
earlier in the day when the police atrocities had just begun
but were repelled, but most are from the night time attack.
Please protest to the Bangladesh embassy in your country. In
Washington DC it is:

In a press statement, 15 high-ranking leaders of the city
unit of the Chittagong-based hardline pro-Islamic
organization condemned the attack and said it would be
treated as the greatest massacre in history. They also
claimed that armed cadres of Chhatra League and Juba League,
the student and youth wings of the ruling Awami League were
involved in the mayhem at the adjacent areas of Baitul
Mukarram National Mosque on Sunday.

"The Hefazat proved it repeatedly that they believed in
peace and not in vandalising and setting fire to public or
private property," the statement said. "They (ruling
partymen) plundered jewelry shops, set fire to book shops
and holy Quran, damaged and torched vehicles with police
assistance...But the pro-government media try to shift the
responsibility on us," the statement added.

crowd was carried out when Hefazat leaders and activists
were staying there peacefully; some were offering jikr,
some prayer and some were just sleeping. "At this time,
police, RAB and BGB launched their joint operation killing
hundreds of people and injuring some 20,000 more creating
a black chapter of the history," the statement added. The
statement quoted witnesses as saying that bodies of the
deceased were taken away by pickup vans, ambulance and
trucks. "We have no language to express our condemnation and
protest at the incident," the statement said adding that
the government has to take the responsibility for it.
Terming the incident "savage and shameful", the Hefazat
leaders said none could save him or her in the past by
carrying out repression or killing. The Hefazat leaders
also expressed their concerns over the alleged police
attacks on and killings at Quami madrasahs and Islamic
institutions across the country. They urged the people to
offer special prayer in mosques across the country for the
departed souls and also for the early recovery of the
injured.

Mass killing of protesters in Dhaka at night by armed Joint
military - civil forces.
by Firoz Mahboob Kamal

Today is another black day of Bangladesh history ..In day
time on 5th May police killed around 25 protesters in Dhaka
while the protesters protest at Motijhil in Dhaka for
implementing their 13 points demand.At evening the
protesters took decision to stay on street of Motijhil
Shapla Square...But at night (2:30 AM) when the protesters
were sleeping the joint forces of government killing
innocent protesters in street by firing , throwing tear
shell ..even they conducted brutality by riot car and
demolished the sleeping protesters to kill ..Not only joint
forces , some ruling party's activists join to kill unarmed
protesters by shot gun and stick .Some media person said
joint forces have taken 5 truck loads of dead body to
disappear..Even some journalists said the number of death
will be 2500 ...now you will see some heart broken pictures.